Selected Bibliography for Research*Ades, Dawn. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Exhibition catalogue. London: Arts Council of Great Britain and Westerham Press, 1978. Alexandrian, Sarane. Surrealist Painters: A Tribute to the Artists and Influence of Surrealism. New York: Hanna Graham, 2009. Arp, Jean. Le Surréalisme. Éditions d'Art Albert Skira, Geneva, 1982. Bailly, Jean Christopher, John Russell, and Robert C. Morgan. Dorothea Tanning. New York: George Braziller, 1995. Baron, Jacques. Anthologie Plastique du Surréalisme. Paris: Éditions Filipacchi, 1980. Baum, Timothy. "Books in Review: Birthday. By Dorothea Tanning." The Print Collector’s Newsletter 28, no. 1 (March/April 1987), p. 25. Bertelé, René, with poems by Jean-Louis Bedouin and André Pieyre de Mandiargues. Dorothea Tanning. Exhibition brochure. Galerie Furstenberg, Paris, 1954. Bosquet, Alain. "Dorothea Tanning: De l’obsession au ravissement" (exhibition review). XXe Siècle 21, no. 12 (May-June 1959), sup. pp. 10-11. _____. "Dorothea Tanning: Dessins et Collages." (exhibition review). Combat, October 23, 1961. _____. Dorothea Tanning: Peintures 1959-1962. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Galerie Mouradian & Vallotton, 1962 _____. La Peinture de Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1966. _____. "Seconde naissance de Dorothea Tanning" (exhibition review). Combat, June 8, 1970. Bruy, Ursel. "Die alchemistische Emanzipation — Transformationsstrategien bei Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini und Dorothea Tanning." Metamorphosen der Liebe: Kunstwissenschaftliche Studien zu Eros und Geschlecht im Surrealismus. Verena Krieger, ed. Hamburg: Ikonologie der Moderne Band 1, 2006, pp. 103–121. Carruthers, Victoria. "Between Silence and Sound: John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen and the Sculptures of Dorothea Tanning." Art, History and the Senses: 1830 to the Present. Patrizia Di Bello and Gabriel Koureas, eds. Surrey: Ashgate Publishing, 2010, pp. 97-116. _____. "Dorothea Tanning and Her Gothic Imagination." Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 5, no. 1 (2011), pp. 134-158. _____. Imagining the In-between: The Art of Dorothea Tanning. PhD thesis, University of Essex, 2012. Caws, Mary Ann. Joseph Cornell’s Theater of the Mind — Selected Diaries, Letters and Files. New York: Thames and Hudson, Inc., 1993. _____. "Person: Tanning’s Self-portraiture." The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1997, pp. 61-93. Chadwick, Whitney, ed. Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation. Exhibition catalogue. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Art Center, 1998. _____. "The Muse as Artist: Women in the Surrealist Movement." Art in America 73, no. 7 (July 1985), pp. 120-128. _____. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. Conley, Katharine. "Les révolutions de Dorothea Tanning." Pleine Marge: Cahiers de littérature, d’arts plastiques, & de critique no. 36 (December 2002), pp. 146-175. _____. "Safe as Houses: Anamorphic Bodies in Ordinary Spaces: Miller, Varo, Tanning, Woodman." Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism. Exhibition catalogue. London: Prestel and Manchester Art Gallery, 2009, pp. 46-55. _____. "Surrealism’s Ghostly Automatic Body." Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 15, no. 3 (June 2011), pp. 297-304. Dannatt, Adrian. "NY Artist Q & A: Dorothea Tanning" (interview). The Art Newspaper (International Edition), Vol. X, no. 98. (December 1999), p. 71. de Menil, Dominique and Walter Hopps. The Menil Collection. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987. de Solier, René. "Les sculptures tantriques de Dorothea Tanning" (exhibition review). XXe Siècle 32, no. 35 (December 1970), pp. 76-84. "Dorothea Tanning." Mizue 803 (December 1971), pp. 64–79. Dorothea Tanning: Numéro Spécial de XXe Siècle. Essais, Lettres, Poèmes et Temoignages par Daniel Abadie, Sarane Alexandrian, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Jacques Baron, André Breton, Roland Busselen, John Cage, Jean Cassou, Eleanor Clark, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duhamel, Max Ernst, Pierre Hebey, Pontus Hulten, Constantin Jelenski, Alain Jouffroy, Robert Lebel, James Lord, André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Andre Masson, Joan Miró, Robert Penn Warren, Roland Penrose, John Russell, Jean Tardieu et Patrick Waldberg, Lithographies Originales en Couleurs de Masson, Matta et Joan Miró. Paris: Editions XXe Siècle, 1977. Duits, Charles. "Le surréalisme." XXe Siècle 26, no. 24 (December 1964), p. 120. elles@centrepompidou: Women Artists in the Collection of the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre de création industrielle. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2009 (French and English versions). Elsasser, Glen. "Book Chronicles Dorothea Tanning’s Career" (book review and interview). Chicago Tribune, January 7, 1996, Section 7 (Arts & Entertainment), p. 7. Ernst, Max. Dorothea Tanning. Exhibition brochure. New York: Julien Levy Gallery, 1944. Everding, Kelly. "Dorothea Tanning" (book review and interview). Rain Taxi Review of Books 6, no. 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 32-33. Fort, Ilene Susan, and Tere Arcq, eds. In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2012. Falkenstein, Michelle. "The Oldest Living Surrealist Tells (Almost) All." ARTnews 100, no. 8 (September 2001), pp. 146-7. Freudenheim, Milt. "Up from Galesburg with Dorothea Tanning." Chicago Daily News: Panorama, June 29-30, 1974, p. 12. Geldzahler, Henry. "Dorothea Tanning: Max Ernst and Me" (book review). Elle (April 1987), pp. 116, 118. Gerhardt, Kuwertz & Schumann. "Weibliche Inhalte auf weibliche Weise darstellen." Magazin Kunst 4 (1975), pp. 77–79. Gibson, Ann. "Dorothea Tanning: The Impassioned Double Entendre" (exhibition review). Arts Magazine 58, no. 1 (September 1983), pp. 102–103, rep. p. 102–103. Giordano, Marina. "Gli avatar pittura: le soft sculptures di Dorothea Tanning." Surrealismo e dintorni. Eva di Stefano, Giulia Ingarao, and Davide Lacagnina, eds. Rome: XL edizioni, 2010, pp. 89-114. _____. Trame d’artista: Il tessuto nell’arte contemporanea. Milan: Postmedia Books, 2012, pp. 164-168.
Girst, Thomas. "Lebenswert: Der Surrealismus" (interview). Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (July 14, 2002), p. NR 28. Glassie, John. "Oldest Living Surrealist Tells All" (interview). Salon.com. February 11, 2002. Greskovic, Robert, Joanna Kleinberg, and Rachel Liebowitz. Dorothea Tanning: Early Designs for the Stage. The Drawing Center. New York, New York. 2010. Gruen, John. "Among the Sacred Monsters" (interview). ARTnews 87, no. 3 (March 1988), pp. 178–182. _____. The Artist Observed, 28 Interviews with Contemporary Artists. Chicago: A Capella Books, 1991. Grünburger, Tulla. "Dorothea Tanning: Konstnären befriad i både färg och form." Veckojournalen, October 17, 1978, pp. 24–25. Hagenberg, Roland. "Dorothea Tanning" (interview). Art of Russia and the West, No. 1 (March 1989), pp. 24-31. Hall-Duncan, Nancy, and Sam Hunter. The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas. Exhibition catalogue. Greenwich, Connecticut: The Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, 1998. Howard, Richard. "Dorothea Tanning: Philadelphia Museum of Art" (exhibition review). Artforum 39, no. 8 (April 2001), p. 135. _____. "Still Time: A Note on Dorothea Tanning’s Poems." Amercian Poet : The Journal of The Academy of American Poets (Spring 2003), pp. 20-23. _____, and Charles Stuckey. Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias 1955–1965. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Kent Gallery, 2005. Hüllenkremer, Marie. "Die Kunst des Liebens" (book review). Zeit Magazine 14 (March 1990), pp. 46-56. Hulten, Pontus. "Introduction." Eleven Paintings by Dorothea Tanning. Kent Fine Art, New York. May 18 - June 18, 1988. _____. "Preface." Dorothea Tanning. Exhibition brochure. Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm. November-December 1975, p. 1. _____. "Preface." Dorothea Tanning: 10 Recent Paintings and a Biography. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Gimpel-Weitzenhoffer Gallery, 1979, p. 5. Janis, Sidney. Abstract and Surrealist Art in America. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1944. Jean, Marcel. Histoire de la Peinture Surréaliste. Paris: Éditions de Seuil, 1959. Jelenski, Constantin. "Dorothea Tanning" (exhibition review). Preuves 100 (June 1959), p. 92. Jouffroy, Alain. "Dorothea Tanning: Le Chavirement dans la joie" (exhibition review). XXe Siècle 36, no. 43 (December 1974), pp. 60-68. _____. "La révolution est femme." XXe Siècle—Panorama 74—Le surréalisme I 36, no. 42 (June 1974), pp. 112-16. _____. "Questions pour Dorothea Tanning: Entretien avec Alain Jouffroy, Mars 1974" (interview). Dorothea Tanning: Oeuvre. Retrospective exhibition catalogue. Paris: Centre National D'Art Contemporain, 1974. Kang, Soo Y. "Tanning’s Pictograph: Repossessing Woman’s Fantasy." Aurora, The Journal of the History of Art 3 (2002), pp. 89-104. Kirwin, Liza. More Than Words: Illustrated Letters From The Smithsonian’s Archive of American Art. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005. Kramer, Jane. "Self Inventions: Dorothea Tanning, Painter Turned Poet." The New Yorker, May 3, 2004, pp. 40-60. Kuspit, Donald. "Dorothea Tanning." Dorothea Tanning: On Paper 1948-1986. Exhibition brochure. New York: Kent Fine Art, 1987. _____. "Dorothea Tanning, Stephen Mazoh & Co." (exhibition review). Artforum 22 (January 1984), p. 71. Lalanne, Dorothée. "Dorothea Tanning comme ça" (book review). Vogue (Paris) 694 (March 1989), pp. 239–243. Lampe, Angela. Die unheimlishe Frau: Weiblichkeit im Surrealismus. Exhibition catalogue. Bielefeld: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, 2001. Lebel, Robert. "Dorothea Tanning" (exhibition review). Cahiers d’Art 28, no. 1 (1953), pp. 137–140. _____. "Il Surrealismo Dopo il 1940." Arte Moderna 35 (1967). _____. "Le Surréalisme en 53." Premier Bilan de l’Art Actuel. Paris: Le Soleil Noir Positions, 1953. _____. "Prose pour Dorothea Tanning." Dorothea Tanning: Peintures Recentes, Petites Sculptures D'Or. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Le Point Cardinal, 1962, plate 1 (color) and 15 (black-and-white); Le Point Cardinal, Paris, 1966, pp. 7-9. Levi-Strauss, Monique. "Dorothea Tanning: Soft Sculptures" (interview). American Fabrics and Fashions 108 (Fall 1976), pp. 68–69. Levitt, Annette S. "Women’s Work: The Transformations of Leonor Fini and Dorothea Tanning." The Genres and Genders of Surrealism. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999, pp. 89-11. List, Larry, and Ingrid Schaffner. The Imagery of Chess Revisited. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Noguchi Museum, 2005. Lumbard, Paula. "Dorothea Tanning: On the Threshhold to a Darker Place." Woman’s Art Journal 2, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 1981), pp. 49-52. Lundström, Anna. "Bodies and Spaces: On Dorothea Tanning's Sculptures." Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History 78, no. 3 (November 2009), pp. 121-130. Lyford, Amy. "Refashioning Surrealism: The Early Art of Dorothea Tanning." Dorothea Tanning: Beyond the Esplanade: Paintings, Drawings and Prints from 1940 to 1965. Exhibition catalogue. San Francisco: Frey Norris Gallery, 2009, pp. 4-15. MacRitchie, Lyn. "Painting is life or death, every time." Financial Times (October 9–10, 1993), p. 23. McAra, Catriona. "Blind Date: Tanning’s Surrealist Anti-tale." Anti-Tales: The Uses of Disenchantment. Catriona McAra and David Calvin, eds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 100-114. _____. "Kaleidoscope Eyes: Cytherean Voyages in the Post-Surrealist Practice of Dorothea Tanning." Dorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States. San Francisco: Gallery Wendi Norris, 2013, pp. 11-19. _____. "(Re-)Reading (Post-)Surrealism Through Dorothea Tanning’s Chasm: The Femme-Enfant Tears Through the Text." Postmodern Reinterpretations of Fairy Tales: How Applying New Methods Generates New Meanings. Anna Kérchy ed. London: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011, pp. 421-442. _____. "Some Parallels in Words and Pictures": Dorothea Tanning and Visual Intertextuality. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. _____. "Surrealism’s Curiosity: Lewis Carroll and the Femme-Enfant." Papers of Surrealism, Issue 9 (Summer 2011). McCormick, Carlo. "Dorothea Tanning" (interview). BOMB 33 (Fall 1990), pp. 36–41. McQuaid, Cate. "Dorothea Tanning Paints Again, and Speaks for Herself" (exhibition review and interview). The Boston Sunday Globe, April 4, 1999, p. N6. Mejias, Jordan. "Seherin der Kunst: Dorothea Tanning erfindet die Welt Neu" (book review). Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin 526 (March 30, 1990), pp. 12–18. Melville, Robert. "The Snake on the Dining Room Table," View 6 (May, 1946), pp. 9–10. _____. "Violence" (exhibition review). The Architectural Review 135, no. 807 (May 1964), pp. 367-369. Morgan, Robert. Dorothea Tanning: "Messages." Exhibition catalogue. New York: Nahan Contemporary, 1990. Morley, Simon. "Dorothea Tanning: The Art in Being Surreal" (interview). Art Line International 14, no. 9 (1990), pp. 42-43. Mundy, Jennifer. "Quiet Mystery." Tate Arts and Culture (July-August 2003), pp. VI-VIII. _____, and Dawn Ades, eds. Surrealism: Desire Unbound. London: Tate Publishing, 2001; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Myers, John B. Tracking the Marvelous. New York: Random House, 1981. Napier, Eloise. "Her Infinite Variety" (interview). Harpers & Queen, September 2004, pp. 226-231. Nakamura, Marie-Pierre. "New York: Dorothea Tanning" (interview). Art Actuel no. 19 (March-April 2002), pp. 23-25. Nochlin, Linda. "Reviews: Dorothea Tanning at C.N.A.C." (exhibition review). Art in America 62, no. 6 (November 1974), p. 128. Nordgren, Sune, John Russell, Alain Jouffroy, Jean-Christophe Bailly, and Lasse Söderberg. Dorothea Tanning: Om Konst Kunde Tala (If Art Could Talk). Exhibition catalogue. Malmö, Sweden: Malmö Konsthall, 1993. Includes "Interview with Dorothea Tanning" by Alain Jouffroy, originally published as "Questions pour Dorothea Tanning entretien avec Alain Jouffroy, Mars 1974," in Dorothea Tanning: Oeuvre, retrospective exhibition catalogue, Paris: Centre National D'Art Contemporain, 1974. Oesterreicher-Mollwo, Marianne. Surrealism and Dadaism. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1979. Pech, Jürgen. "Hinter den Türen des Werkes von Dorothea Tanning." Mythen – Symbole – Metamorphosen in der Kunst seit 1800: Festschrift für Christa Lichtenstern zum 60. Geburtstag. Helga and J. Adolf Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth and Regina Maria Hillert, eds. Berlin: Mann, 2004, pp. 366–377. Plazy, Giles. Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Editions Filipacchi, 1976. _____. "La libération de Dorothea Tanning" (exhibition review). Quodidien de Paris, May 30, 1974, p. 12. Pretzell, Lothar. "Himmlische und irdische Liebe: Gedanken zum Werk von Dorothea Tanning." Kunstmagazin (June 1980), pp. 28–31. Radford, Robert. "Dorothea Tanning" (exhibition review). Art Monthly 171 (November 1993), pp. 25–26. Richardson, John. "Tanning Secrets" (book review). Vanity Fair (April 1987), p. 128. Roberts, Helene. "Metaphors of the Self in the Paintings of Dorothea Tanning." Visual Resources Association 23, no. 4 (Winter 1996), pp. 79-82. Rubin, Robert Henry. "Dorothea Tanning" (interview). NIGHT (November 1979). Russell, John. "Dorothea Tanning at Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer" (exhibition review). Art in America 68 (February 1980), pp. 129–130. Savigneau, Josyanne. "Des Livres: Dorothea Tanning, le surréalisme au cœur" (interview). Le Monde, May 9, 2003, p. VIII. Sawin, Martica. Surrealism in Exile and the Beginning of the New York School. Cambidge, Mass. and London: The MIT Press, 1995. Schaffner, Ingrid, and Lisa Jacobs, eds., with introduction by Dorothea Tanning. Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998. Schaffner, Ingrid, Charles Simic, and Mary Ann Caws, with foreword by Ann Philbin. The Return of the Cadavre Exquis. Exhibition catalogue. New York: The Drawing Center, 1994. Schmied, Wieland. "Die Türen des Unbewussten." Kunstmagazin (June 1980), pp. 22–27. Schneede, Uwe M. Malerei des Surrealismus. Cologne: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1973. _____. Surrealism. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1973. Schwabsky, Barry. "Dorothea Tanning" (exhibition review). Arts Magazine 61, no. 7 (March 1987), pp. 106–107. _____. "Her Wild Entire." The Nation, March 8, 2010, pp. 31-34. Schwartz, Arturo. Die Surrealistien. Exhibition catalogue. Frankfurt: Kulturgesellschaft Frankfurt mbH and Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 1989. _____. I Surrealisti. Exhibition catalogue. Milan: Nuove edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 1989. Shikler, Barbara. "Interview with Dorothea Tanning" (unpublished). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1990. Söderqvist, Jan. "Historien om en kärlek" (book review). Svenska Dagbladet, March 3, 1989, p. 10. Spies, Werner. "Attentat auf die eigene Person." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 193 (August 21, 2010), pp. Z1-2. Stich, Sidra. Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Abbeville Press and University Art Museum, Berkeley, 1990. Sundberg, Martin. "The Metamorphosis of Dorothea Tanning: On the Painting Insomnias." Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History, 79, no. 1 (March 2010), pp. 18-32. "Surréalisme 1924–1975." Mizue 838 (January 1975), pp. 20–45, rep. pp. 12, 34. Tashjian, Dickran. Joseph Cornell. Miami: Grassfield Press, 1992. Temkin, Ann. "Dorothea Tanning." Grand Street 72: Detours (Fall 2003), pp. 137-139, with portfolio of images of sculpture pp. 126-136. _____. "Dorothea Tanning: Birthday." Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002, p. 132. _____. Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond. Exhibition brochure. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000. Waddell, Roberta, and Ruby, Louisa Wood, eds., with texts by Donald Kuspit and Dorothea Tanning. Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! A Catalogue Raisonné of the Artist’s Illustrated Books and Prints, 1942-1991. New York: The New York Public Library, 1992. Waldberg, Patrick. "Dorothea Tanning et Les Enfants de La Nuit." Dorothea Tanning, Casino Communal, XXe Festival Belge D'Été. Exhibition catalogue. Brussels: André de Rache, 1967, pp. 5-13. _____. "Dorothea Tanning: La Mémoire Ensorcelée." Les Demeures d’Hypnos. Paris: Éditions de la Différence, 1976, pp. 310-329. _____. Le Surréalisme. Geneva: Skira, 1962. _____. "Tanning ou La mémoire ensorcelée." XXe Siècle 28, no. 27 (December 1966), pp. 129-130. Warhol, Andy. "Mr. and Mrs. Max Ernst" (interview). Interview 5, no. 5 (1975), pp. 11-13. Warner, Marina. The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible. Exhibition Catalogue. London: National Touring Exhibitions and Hayward Gallery, 1996. Watt, Alexander. "Paris Commentary" (exhibition review). Studio 158, no. 798 (October 1959), p. 92. Wechsler, Jeffrey. Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947. Exhibition catalogue. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Art Gallery, 1976. Wilson, Sarah. Dorothea Tanning: Between Lives--Works on Paper. Exhibition catalogue. London: Runkel-Hue-Williams Ltd., 1989. Wilson, Simon. Surrealist Painting. Phaidon Press Ltd., Oxford, 1976 & 1982. Worth, Nicolas. "The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Delirium" (exhibition review). Art News and Review 7, no. 3 (March 5, 1955), p. 6. Wyss, Dieter. Der Surrealismus: Eine Einführung und Deutung Surrealistischer Literatur und Malerei. Heidelberg: Verlag Lambert Schneider, 1950. |
*For books, essays, and poems written by Dorothea Tanning, please see Writings Bibliography or Poetry Bibliography.
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